NATION DATELINES

Compiled from Examiner wire reports

Published 4:00 am, Saturday, March 18, 1995

Widow is found guilty

of killing 9th husband Hot Sulphur Springs, Colo. A woman whose 11 marriages earned her the nickname "Black Widow" was convicted Friday of plotting and carrying out the torture and killing of her ninth husband.

Jill Coit and Michael Backus were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the shooting death of Gerald Boggs, a hardware store owner.

Boggs was found dead at his Steamboat Springs home in October 1993. Prosecutors say Boggs, 52, was beaten, shocked with a stun gun and shot with a .22-caliber pistol.

Elementary school in Oakland opens time capsule from 1927San Francisco Chronicle

Brides of March walk through San FranciscoSan Francisco Chronicle

WildCare rescues Western scrub jay from rodent glue trapWildCare

The Regulars: The CarpenterJessica Christian

Massive fire in San Francisco's North BeachDavid Essling

Coit, 51, was married 11 times to nine men. Her marriage to Boggs was annulled when he learned she was still married to her eighth husband.

"Playboy' cop shows

she still bleeds blue New York Carol Shaya - who was fired by the New York Police Department last week for posing nude in Playboy - engaged in a little police work anyway. When she witnessed an attempted robbery in a trendy eatery, she took quick action.

Shaya helped disarm a knife-wielding bandit before police officers arrived to make an arrest Wednesday night, said Rocco Ancarola, the restaurant's owner. The man had tried to steal $50 from the bar.

Police Commissioner William Bratton fired Shaya March 7 for posing nude with handcuffs, gun and nightstick in a pictorial entitled "NYPD Nude."

Suspect engine parts

ground light planes Washington U.S. air safety officials Friday ordered grounded some 6,000 private planes because faulty parts may have been installed in their engines during an overhaul.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the suspected unapproved parts might have come from Germany and been sent in packages made to appear they were genuine parts for the Textron Lycoming engines.

FAA officials said about 85,000 Lycoming engines are in service, and it is believed that about 10 percent have been overhauled, with about 30 percent of the work done by Lycoming or with the demonstrated use of certified parts.

The agency started an investigation following the reports of two incidents involving the engines of the small general aircraft planes that are typically piloted by owners and not used for hire or by companies.

There were no injuries in the two incidents.

State Senate leader

indicted for wiretap Charleston, W.Va. The state Senate majority leader was charged Friday with paying two men to bug the phone of his ex-wife, a high-ranking state official.

H. Truman Chafin intended to use the information "in connection with his pending divorce proceedings and in other ways," the federal indictment said.

Chafin, a lawyer who lives in Williamson, said he knew nothing about the indictment. His ex-wife, state Health and Human Resources Secretary Gretchen Lewis, declined to comment.

The couple were married from 1990 to 1993 and have been involved in a bitter custody dispute over their young daughter.

A grand jury handed down an indictment of Chafin March 10 but kept it sealed "in order to avoid unnecessary disruption in the final days of the legislative session," U.S. Attorney Rebecca Betts said. It was unsealed Friday, about an hour after the Legislature adjourned its extended session.&lt;